Thersites is an English word. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Thersites in a sentence
Thersites meaning
plural of thersite
Using Thersites
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of thersite
Context around Thersites
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 0 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Thersites
- In this selection, "thersites" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 32 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, commoner, slew and speaks stand out and add context to how "thersites" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include achilles slew thersites and after and instance when thersites speaks against. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "thersites" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with thersites
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He always champions the Achaean cause, especially when the king is in question, as in one instance when Thersites speaks against him. (22 words)
Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 999. Achilles slew Thersites, and after a dispute sailed to Lesbos, where he was purified for his murder by Odysseus after sacrificing to Apollo, Artemis, and Leto. (31 words)
There is a strong aristocratic bias in the poems demonstrated by the lack of any major protagonists of non-aristocratic stock, and by episodes such as the beating down of the commoner Thersites by the king Odysseus for daring to criticize his superiors. (43 words)
There is a strong aristocratic bias in the poems demonstrated by the lack of any major protagonists of non-aristocratic stock, and by episodes such as the beating down of the commoner Thersites by the king Odysseus for daring to criticize his superiors. (43 words)
Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 999. Achilles slew Thersites, and after a dispute sailed to Lesbos, where he was purified for his murder by Odysseus after sacrificing to Apollo, Artemis, and Leto. (31 words)
He always champions the Achaean cause, especially when the king is in question, as in one instance when Thersites speaks against him. (22 words)
Example sentences (3)
He always champions the Achaean cause, especially when the king is in question, as in one instance when Thersites speaks against him.
There is a strong aristocratic bias in the poems demonstrated by the lack of any major protagonists of non-aristocratic stock, and by episodes such as the beating down of the commoner Thersites by the king Odysseus for daring to criticize his superiors.
Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 999. Achilles slew Thersites, and after a dispute sailed to Lesbos, where he was purified for his murder by Odysseus after sacrificing to Apollo, Artemis, and Leto.